Little River near Alcoa, TN Flow & Water Level

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 03498850 sits on the Little River and reads everything draining 300 square miles of the Watts Bar Lake basin. Its datum sits 814 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1987, 39 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Little River near Maryville, TN, reading 269 square miles. This gauge adds the 31 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Fort Loudoun Lake at 9,550 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Little River runs a median of 322 cfs at this gauge across 39 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 730 cfs, and October the leanest at 128 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 28,000 cfs in 1994, and the lowest is 21 cfs in 2009.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1987 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Fort Loudoun Dam is 18 miles from this gauge on the Tennessee system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Fort Loudoun Dam 18 miles
• Tellico Dam 19 miles
• Melton Hill Dam 22 miles
• Douglas Dam 24 miles